>Did you have a strategy or was it a leap of faith? Complete leap of faith. Got a very safe job in the French administration writing programs that manage pensi

>Did you have a strategy or was it a leap of faith? Complete leap of faith. Got a very safe job in the French administration writing programs that manage pension for public servants and electronically archive documents. So safe I was bored to death and depressed. I applied for a Canadian work Holiday Visa, got it with a friend, left and never looked back. My boss at the the time was so surprised I left such a safe place he literally told me "You've got balls" ("t'as des couilles"). Truth be told it was a matter of mental health. I've spent two years in Vancouver, Canada, learned scala in a startup, met people I'm still in contact with. Now I live in the UK and work for the Guardian which is by an order of magnitude the best job I've ever had. >Did you regret it later on? Never. It was risky but it also was the best decision of my life. I just miss being closer to my family. > Are you happy with the decision you made? Yes >Where do you think you would be today if you had decided to stay in that job? Probably still integrating bloatware in order to manage French public servant pension, if not in hospital.